Forbidden Love

Chapter 30

( PLOT TWIST AHEAD. PROCEED WITH CAUTION. ;) )

I immediately stand up again, nothing but rage running through me right now. The four of them fix their gazes on me as I stare a hole right through Draco's head. 

"Eden, please don't get.." Before Matteo can finish his sentence I interrupt him."Shut the fuck up, Mattheo." I point my finger at him dominantly.

I rub the side of my head and try to come up with the right words to say to Draco, seeing how he's been missing from all of our lives, MY LIFE, for the last two, almost three months.

"Why are you here?" I ask demandingly, crossing my arms.

"Well, to explain why I've been gone.. To see you."

I let out a psychotic laugh as I take a seat on the sofa next to Theo again.

"Will you give us a minute, please?" I ask Blaise, Mattheo, and Theo. Theo grabs my hand before fulfilling my request while Blaise and Mattheo walk up to their rooms.

"Are you sure you want to do this? I can stay if you need me to."

"Theo, I'll be okay. I need to know. So I can move on." He nods understandably and walks up to his room, leaving Draco and me alone. Draco walks over to me and sits down on the sofa beside me. I mentally prepare myself for whatever dumbass excuse he's about to feed me. 

"I have missed you so much.." He tries to grab my hand and hold it, but I pull away before he has the chance.

"Do you know how traumatized I've been since you left.. *I begin to cry and each word spoken afterwards comes out fragile and cracked* You didn't give anyone a fucking explanation Draco. I was so distraught!"  Draco wipes the tear from my cheek and looks down at his feet. 

"Eden, believe me, it wasn't on purpose. The morning I left to visit my parents when they called for me, they told me we were going to visit my aunt Bellatrix. The whole time I've been gone I've been with my family, and some of their friends. I don't really know how it all happened so fast. One second we were eating breakfast, then the next they were telling me we were going to visit my aunt, and then we didn't come back home until two days ago."

I sit there crying quietly while listening his words, trying to understand what he's telling me. I just can't wrap my head around any part of his explanation.

"Eden.." I look into his eyes, waiting for more of his words. Anything. Just to hear his voice again.

"My father forbid me from speaking to you ever again, because of your father.. He told me about him and who he was, and that he was trying to leave Voldemort's army." 

Song of the Section: Dark Times by The Weekend ft. Ed Sheeran 

The tears begin to flow harder and harder as he continues talking about my father. Not knowing if I can handle listening to anymore of this, I stand up and run out of the common room. Not having an exact destination, I decide to run in the direction toward the Astronomy Tower, somewhere I haven't been since Draco left us all. I run up the stairs of the Astronomy Tower and go over to the balcony. 

As I begin to cry harder and harder I try to slow my breathing down. I stand there for a few minutes before I hear footsteps approaching from behind me. I turn around to see Draco standing there, looking scared, but the only expression I can muster is full of disappointment and sadness. 

"Eden.. You don't understand." I listen to his soothing voice for just a moment longer before I notice people starting to apparate into the tower. I look around and see Draco's aunt, Bellatrix Lestrange, and some other odd looking people. They stand around Draco as if they're protecting him and stare intensely at me.